The woeful English speaking skills of Indonesian beauty pageant contestants.

Miss Indonesia 2009 (Putri Indonesia) Qory Sandioriva, during the "Get to know" interview stage of the Miss Universe 2010 grand final being held in Las Vegas, Nevada, was asked what wise womanly advice she had for men, in general it seems, responding:

I think that when you down the women can make you up, and I think that women can be said that "I have advice for you" that if you way up, you have to be nice to people, include the women, so when you down, women can be nice with you

Her words have raised painful memories of 2006 Miss Universe contestant Nadine Chandrawinata's "Indonesia is a beautiful city" fiasco, and again caused concerned commentators to wonder at the consistently poor standard of English among Indonesian beauty pageant winners.

Watch the rest of her stammering, confusing responses:

And Nadine in 2006:

Qory is no stranger to beat-up, storm in a teacup controversy, having been said to have caused anger among Acehnese Muslims in October 2009 when she won the Miss Indonesia contest representing the Verandah of Mecca, shamelessly unbejilbabed.

It may be broken English but at least she does her best to pronounce it correctly, not the ridiculous speech some would-be radio presenters use here in Bali which make my toes curl and jump up in search for another station.

Qory “When you down, the women can make you up” Sandioriva or
Nadine “We have a lot of beautiful bitches” Chandrawinata or
Caitlin “I personally believe that such as and…” Upton, who is a native English speaker

Contrary to what Parvita said, I myself could still get the ideas she was trying to explain. Well, her English might be far from exceptional indeed, but that’s all right. Nevertheless, this is one of the many reasons I loved Miss Karenina Halim so much (Miss Indonesia 2009).

That means English doesn’t suit the beauty. All of us know that English is not a beautiful language. The fact : no true native english speaker can be catagorized miss world-class-beautiful. The true designation of english is to be used as language in coal mines or harbors among lowbrows.

A non English native speaker contestant who speaks English will get a plus from the judges. I think this is what she aims, a more achievable target rather than thinking too much on the content of her speech.

This is my opinion about cory’s inglish(Indo lish)….If the men fell sad,the women will cheer them up.in other word, men need women to be their companion or vice versa ..it seems a piece of cake but no men are existed without woman in this world. that’s way being women is special. Somebody gave me a small and simple music box gift ,when I opened it the music played sound good to my ears,It was inspiring me to learn more any kinds of music. To be honest with you that gift is memorable.I was dated a playboy man at the restaurant and he also dated the same time with two other gilrls friends, At that time I was so naive to understand him, After he got caught chitting on me then I broke-up with him Even thought, he convinced me that he never do that to me and really nice to me but I was never trusted him again.Now day, Iam learn from my mistake to really careful to choose my future dated. This was my worst dated I have ever had in my entire life.